Samuel Behar papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Samuel Behar
Donated to the USHMM by Mr. Samuel Behar in 2008.
Scope and Content
Two documents including a Turkish passport issued to the Behar family. The Behar family held Turkish citizenship while living in the Netherlands. They were deported to Westerbork transit camp and later to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in September 1944. In March 1945 the Behar family and 50 other Turkish Jews were released from the camp and shipped to Istanbul, Turkey. The collection also includes a food ration book issued to the Behar family in Holland in 1946 upon their return.
Subjects
- Turkey.
Genre
- Document
- Passports.